Making and Maintaining Housing Affordability
Policymakers and researchers, over the course of decades, have developed numerous approaches to promoting housing affordability. However, Shane Phillips, housing initiative project manager at the University of California Los Angeles’ Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies, argues that a myopic concentration on individual solutions overlooks the inevitable tradeoffs they incur and obscures their connection to the broader goals of housing policy.
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